The Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra is having a hard time getting its season underway. Tomorrow night’s opening was supposed to have been conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, with Janine Jansen as soloist in the Tchaikovsky Violin … » Read

Just one week out from the opening of its 138 th season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced that its concertmaster of 35 years, Malcolm Lowe, is stepping down, effective immediately. Lowe, 66, has been absent from Symphony Hall for over … » Read

John Glover, VP and director of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s DiMenna Center for Classical Music, is to be the new director of artistic planning for the Kaufman Music Center, which includes Merkin Hall. It’s a new position under the … » Read

Plácido Domingo, currently in rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera for the title role in Verdi’s Macbeth , opening two weeks from today, has had another accuser go public. Melinda McLain, a production coordinator at the LA Opera in … » Read

BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW), known for its comfort level in a variety of genres, has appointed a 29-year-old California-born maestro to be its next principal conductor, starting in September 2020. First- and audience-prize winner of … » Read

A press release from the World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) in Geneva announcing a new interim secretary general prompted the question of Benjamin Woodruffe’s whereabouts. Woodruffe [pictured] has been at the helm … » Read

As The New York Times and other high-profile outlets herald the arrival of Kirill Petrenko as music director of the Berlin Philharmonic as classical music’s Second Coming, one highly knowledgeable,  multi-award-winning critic is not so … » Read

While the Metropolitan Opera reports that two of Plácido Domingo’s three scheduled performances as Macbeth are sold out (Sept. 25 and 28), the much ballyhooed one-day  Plácido Domingo Gala HD event last  Saturday … » Read

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has a new principal English horn as of this season; he is Kyle Mustain [pictured], formerly in the same position with the Oregon Symphony for eight years. Mustain succeeds Harold Smoliar, who retired at the end … » Read

Kansas City Symphony Music Director Michael Stern [pictured] has extended his current contract through the 2022/23 season, after which he intends to step down.  When he does so, he will have been artistic overseer of the orchestra for 18 … » Read